JavaFX Developer's Guide (Developer's Library) - Softcover

Book 16 of 71: Game Design

Topley, Kim

 
9780321601650: JavaFX Developer's Guide (Developer's Library)

Synopsis

The JavaFX platform makes it possible to write applications that can be deployed across devices ranging from cell phones to desktops, with little or no change required. JavaFX applications are written using JavaFX Script, a new and easy-to-use scripting language.

Kim Topley's JavaFX™ Developer's Guide thoroughly covers the JavaFX language and its core libraries and shows you step by step how to develop and deliver JavaFX applications for the desktop and for mobile devices.

Topley highlights critical topics that other books gloss over, presents detailed examples that stretch JavaFX to its limits, and shows you exactly how to build on the skills you already have. Whether you've been focused on HTML/XML/CSS Web development or Java Swing, this book will help you get outstanding results with JavaFX.

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About the Authors

Kim Topley is the author of four books on Java, including Core JFC, Second Edition; Core Swing: Advanced Programming; J2ME in a Nutshell; and Java Web Services in a Nutshell. An independent computer consultant based in England, he has worked with Java since 1995 and provides development services to leading London financial institutions. Topley has more than thirty years of computer industry experience, in development projects ranging from mainframe and device driver microcode to graphical user interfaces.

Kim Topley is a freelance computer consultant, based in England. He has worked in the computer industry for thirty years, writing microcode for mainframe computers; device drivers, file systems, and security features for the UNIX operating system; communications protocol stacks for Cray supercomputers; and C and Java applications for financial institutions. He learned Java as a result of a chance encounter with the book Core Java in a bookshop in 1995 and has since written four Java books: Core JFC and Core Swing: Advanced Programming, both published by Prentice Hall, and J2ME in a Nutshell and Java Web Services in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly Media. Topley has a keen interest in space flight and aviation and has a private pilot’s license.

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